Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >>> We're missing consensus. I think that if there were a >>> SponsorshipMeister, not unlike the BugMeister, we could do really cool >>> stuff like this. Besides the monetary aid, this brings huge >>> recognition to the community and gets a lot of people on board. > >> A "SponsorshipMeister" is dangerously close to the premise that we can >> turn money into LilyPond. The truth is that we can turn enthusiasm into >> LilyPond. > > How to turn enthousiasm into LilyPond, if people are unaware of it's > existence. Long before we go SponsorshipMeister, I would suggest a > PRMeister.
I don't think that people are unaware of its existence. Mutopia has more than 1500 pieces by now. Those did not exactly fall from some tree. >> We don't make the best of our potential for selling LilyPond out. >> But we should not run into trap of making money a metric for the >> success of LilyPond or its contributors. > > So what would be a valid metric for LilyPond's success? Can we > determine where the hanging fruit is that we are missing in selling > LilyPond out? Are we missing something? With all the "things should be better" talk, I can't help noticing that we have great and dedicated people working on a totally large software project with about a dozen translations, likely the best documentation system of the GNU project, and really large uptake and mindshare (try making a list of all serious music manipulating software on GNU/Linux that does _not_ offer at least an export to LilyPond: you'll not find much). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user